Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger order faced another Latin American nation, Mexico, for War II had probably brought her about as much trouble as any country south of the Rio Grande. With a presidential election coming up next year that is almost sure to cause trouble, Mexico was faced with another period of money shortage. Germany had lately been buying some $2,000,000 worth of expropriated oil a month up to September 1. The Mexican Government missed the cash. The manufactured goods Mexico had been getting from the Reich she stopped getting, leaving the market to the U. S., with which Mexico...
...baseball blackout could have stopped the New York Yankees short of their fourth straight pennant, their fifth under Joe McCarthy, their eleventh in all. On Saturday afternoon they made it mathematically certain, beating Detroit while second-place Boston, 17 hopeless games behind, lost to Cleveland. To make it a bigger Yankee year than ever, six of the 13 Yankee farm teams also won pennants in their minor leagues, four got in playoffs...
...business may well keep its fingers crossed about the real economic profits which a war boom, might offer, but the soundest element of last week's incipient boom was that it had already stimulated employment, thereby increasing purchasing power to support a continuation of bigger production. By reemployment such a boom, even if false, might inaugurate the opposite of the vicious circle of depression: the beginning of a delicious circle of recovery...
Some of the many small straws already blowing in the wind of reemployment and bigger pay rolls, especially in heavy industry areas like Chicago, Pittsburgh...
...everyday world,--a sense which too many pictures lack and which makes too many well-constructed plots hollow. It would seem that Hollywood is hard up for plots when they have to resort to such dubious subjects as babies. But from the looks of "Bachelor Mother," may they find bigger and better babies and shoot bigger and better pictures about them...